Timeline

Susan Hockfield served as the 16th President of MIT from 2004-2012. This timeline represents some of the accomplishments and milestones of her tenure.

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2009

November 25, 2009
Received an honorary doctorate at the Academy of Sciences in Lisbon, Portugal
November 09, 2009
Welcomed the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) Critical Design Review team to campus
October 23, 2009
Hosted a visit on clean energy innovation by US President Barack Obama, the first US president to tour an MIT lab
October 01, 2009
Announced a “Strategy for MIT's Global Engagement"
June 11, 2009
Joined in announcing what would become the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center in Holyoke
May 08, 2009
Celebrated the 5th anniversary of the Ray and Maria Stata Center
April 30, 2009
Spoke on the theme of "convergence" at the American Association for the Advancement of Science
April 13, 2009
Hosted a policy forum entitled “Clean Power: Building a New Clean Energy Economy”
March 23, 2009
Spoke at a White House Press Conference on clean energy funding with US President Barack Obama
February 17, 2009
Convened the Institute-wide Planning Task Force
February 09, 2009
Was the featured speaker at the 28th annual conference of Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) in Houston
February 04, 2009
Announced the creation of the Ragon Institute to develop an AIDS vaccine, a joint venture with Harvard and MGH
January 28, 2009
Attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland
January 21, 2009
Visited Singapore to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Singapore-MIT Alliance